Kathrene Pinkerton

Kathrene Pinkerton (June 9, 1887 – September 6, 1967) was a fiction and nonfiction writer whose writings focused on life in the northern wilderness of Canada.

Life Pinkerton was born Kathrene Sutherland Gedney on June 9, 1887, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Later, she went on to earn a BA at the University of Wisconsin in 1909. Upon graduating, Pinkerton went on to conduct social work, focusing on tuberculosis outbreaks in rural Wisconsin. It was during this time that Kathrene focused on her writing, having started in 1922.

Pinkerton died on September 6, 1967, at New York after suffering from cancer. She was 80 years old. She chose to write from and about her experiences, as much of her content matter revolved around the wilderness that she and her family lived in and explored.

Works Foiling the "Free Trader" (1921) Wilderness Wife (1939) Three's a Crew (1940) Adventure North (1940) Two Ends to Our Shoestring (1941) Fox Island (1942) Farther North (1944) Windigo (1945) The Silver Strain (1946) Bright With Silver (1947) Hidden Harbor (1950) Year of Enchantment (1950) Peddler's Crew (1954) Steer North! (1962)

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